Description: A pamphlet made for distributing to the audience at the 2012 Junior Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop at the University of Toronto Libraries held in conjunction with the Council on East Asian Libraries Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Toronto. It introduces via pictorial images the well-known antiquarian book district in Tokyo, easily accessible by subway.

Date created: March 2012

DOI: doi:10.7939-R3TT4FX12

License information: Attribution 4.0 International

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Autor: Chor, Louis

Fuente: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/

Introducción

This three-panel leaflet was prepared in 2012 for the Junior
Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop held at the University
of Toronto Libraries that year, introducing the antiquarian book
district in the Jinbocho (神保町) area in Tokyo. Some bookstores in
Jinbocho also carry new publications besides used books. Some
shops deal with general subject fields, while some are thematic
stores. This book district is conveniently accessible by subway.
In December 2007 while participating in a training programme
organised by Japan Foundation and the National Diet Library of
Japan, I happened to find a hard-to-find 1974 reprint of a 17th
century painting scroll in a store in Jinbocho. Since the price
(¥25,000) was reasonable and affordable, I purchased this reprint
scroll without second thoughts and presented it to the University of
Alberta Libraries as a gift. I also did the cataloguing.
Food and drink
Bookshops
Pictorial prepared for
the Junior Japanese Studies Librarian
Training Workshop,
University of Toronto, March 12-13 2012
Photographs by Louis Chor,
December 2011
Bookshops
Map taken from street map sign
on Yasukuni-dori
Jinbocho intersection, south side
Jinbocho intersection, north side
Bookshops
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